ProText 2 – Onstage Performance Readings of Contemporary French Drama

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The Organization for Contemporary Alternative Art and Culture "36 Monkeys" launches the second part of its ProText project.

Almost an year after the launch of the pilot project of “36 Monkeys”, an Organization for Contemporary Alternative Art and Culture, ProText, which I have presented in our blog (here and here) in its “German” hypostasis in Sofia and the follow-up “tour” in Russe, Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo and Varna, it is due time for its next installment – ProText 2: The Battle Continues.

The second part of the project for onstage performance readings of contemporary European drama in alternative and non-theatrical spaces focuses on France and is held as a discreet celebration of May ‘68’s anniversary and as a testimony of themission and actions of the team – the young directors Gergana Dimitrova, Vassilena Radeva and Mladen Alexiev. Not surprisingly the venue, chosen for the performances is the Central building of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

The selection has been made with the guidance of Laurent Muhleisen, the drama theorist, translator and artistic advisor to the Comédie Française. The translation of the plays in Bulgarian has been made by Veneta Doicheva, Natasha Kolevska and Svetlana Pancheva.

UnfortunatelyIhavemissedthefirstperformance - “Intrusion” by Frederic Sonntag lastweekend, becausethe “winterhassurprisedus”*, againandthecitywaspracticallyblocked, but I have made arrangements not to miss the second one: "Pas Bouger" (“Not Moving”) by Emmanuel Darley, which will be presented on 29.11. and 30.11. at 19.00 in the SofiaUniversity “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Central building, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd.), the North wing, 4th Floor at the Francophone Centre.

* Every year, despite the usual early and accurate forecasts, the winter “surprises” the Sofia municipality, which is totally unprepared for it’s inevitable, but as it seams, out-of-the-blue coming. Sometimes it feels as an intrusion of a pagan cyclic time within the linear, be it secular or Christian, timeline.

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